In the vast river of time, life, old age, sickness and death are as irreversible as the change of seasons, yet there are always people with great ambitions who dream of crossing this natural boundary. Imagine a bright era where technology and dreams are intertwined, and an experiment on the eternity of life is quietly underway.
The protagonist of the story is the ‘Time Traveller’, who is standing in a futuristic laboratory surrounded by precision instruments flashing with cold blue light. With a low and solemn command, the temperature inside the laboratory plummets, as if even the air has frozen. A huge mechanical arm slowly stretched out, on which was mounted a transparent cabin equipped with special freezing liquid, the time traveller was gently sent into the cabin, with the cabin door slowly closed, he was isolated from the outside world and stepped into a journey across time and space of slumber. Time, at this moment, seemed to have lost its meaning. Decades passed like a white horse, but for the time traveller, it was just a moment in a long dream, as if the whole world had pressed the pause button for him. Finally, when the dawn of science and technology once again illuminates this sleepy land, one day in the future, the laboratory will be activated once again. Scientists hopefully started the thawing process. The time traveller slowly opened his eyes to the future world.
Did you think the above was just a sci-fi story? But this sci-fi imagination is now becoming a real-life technology. James Bedford, a legendary tycoon from Germany, has terminal lung cancer looming over him, but in this moment of despair, Robert Nielsen, a scientist full of passion and ambition, shines a ray of hope on him - human cryonics, a crazy idea designed to defy time and pursue life forever. Bedford, with his obsession for survival, resolutely decided to become the first person in this historic, with a series of complex procedures to start, Bedford's body was slowly immersed in the sci-fi-coloured cryopod, and time seems to be frozen in this moment. As the years passed by, it was already 2008, and the promised ‘day of rebirth’ had quietly arrived. However, when the door of the laboratory slowly opened, the expected miracle did not come. James Bedford, the brave pioneer, still maintains the frozen posture, his body was frozen crystals tightly wrapped, like an ice sculpture across the ages, silently showing the desire for life extension and the helplessness of failure. This experiment of frozen immortality failed, but the profound thinking it inspired about life, science and technology, and human nature is like a bright star that will always illuminate the road ahead for mankind.
In the long river of history, mankind's desire for immortality is like a flame that will never be extinguished. The rich and powerful, sitting on ten thousand riches, but it is hard to buy the mercilessness of the years, their eyes travelled through the worldly prosperity, locked tightly on those legendary secrets that can reverse time. They are eager to continue to enjoy the glory and joy that belongs to them in the endless river of time. The scientists, a group of explorers with reason as their blade and wisdom as their shield, were also deeply attracted by this power. They are in the ghostly light of the laboratory, test tubes, microscopes, and complex instruments have become their weapons to fight with death. Every experiment is a brave exploration of the unknown world, and every failure fails to extinguish the fervent pursuit of the mystery of life in their hearts. They read through ancient texts, learnt from the wisdom of their predecessors, and at the same time constantly challenged the limits of science, trying to unlock the key that locks the door of life.
However, time seems to be an indifferent bystander, quietly watching all this. It is not moved by anyone's will and continues to flow forward at its constant speed. The wealth of the rich and the wisdom of the scientists all seem so small and powerless in front of this vast power. The secret of immortality, like the brightest star in the night sky, although bright and dazzling, but unattainable so the human heart yearns but has to face the cruelty of reality.
So, in this chase across the millennium, some people who chose to give up will be buried in the heart of this desire; some people continue to go forward, even if the road ahead is vast, but also to pursue that line of hope. The secret of immortality is like an eternal riddle, quietly lying in the depths of time, waiting for the day when the brave and persistent souls unravelled.
